RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Mayor candidate Kevin James uses "Rape Kits" ad as symbol of failures at LA City Hall

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Mayor candidate Kevin James uses "Rape Kits" ad as symbol of failures at LA City Hall

Great to see Los Angeles Mayor Candidate Kevin James talk about a huge underlying problem inside the halls of city government, and it squarely hits a hot button issue: Rape Kits. Kevin James for Mayor campaign unveiled a web ad featuring his involvement as a radio broadcaster in the elimination of the rape kit backlog in Los Angeles. Despite victims' pleas for assistance from LA City's elected officials, few would pay attention until Kevin James raised the issue nightly on his radio program. Eventually the rape kit backlog was completely eradicated. Kevin James also relaunched his campaign website with a new look and even more ideas, issues and solutions to make LA great again. Kevin James stated, "As Mayor I will put the people's priorities first. I have spent years listening to Angelenos' concerns over the airwaves and in neighborhoods throughout the city. Time and time again when LA's politicians have failed, the community has turned to me for help. The rape kit backlog was a tragedy that should never have occurred in the first place." This campaign for Mayor of Los Angeles is already starting to get "hot." We need a Mayor that is going to think differently and think about getting the job done, instead of just worrying about getting elected to another political office.

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”